Our pal Datamancer has a new blog up. He’s hoping to keep a regular digital diary of his projects. Given all of the cool stuff he’s always working on, let’s hope he keeps it up. Above are two picks from a hobby furnace he’s building, built around the Lionel’s Lab HobbyMelter kit.

(Jake von Slatt has also been working on a similar furnace, from scratch. You can see his progress so far here and here.)

Gareth Branwyn is a freelancer writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor for Boing Boing and WINK Books. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.

Datamancer

Thanks for the post, Gareth! I definitely think the blog will be an easier way to keep running worklogs of projects. The static html site will still have all the projects listed, but I’ll put the “making-of”s on the blog so they’re all searchable and whatnot.